(Host)
Vermont has gone after medical personnel who take drugs from
patients - or take a patient's prescribed drug and replace it with something
else.

The
attorney general's office also has produced a video about the issue for health
care and law enforcement professionals.

Purdy
says authorities are reluctant to publicize the problem for fear of making it worse.

(Purdy) ``We hope that by more
education, by more training, by more law enforcement intervention that we will
be able to stem the tide in some ways of this really terrible problem in our
health care facilities.'' (:12)

(Host)
Purdy says patients can protect themselves by keeping close track of their
medicine - or even locking it up.